Show A woman burned alavo as a witch from lit st cengr en gr early last month a woman named agrafena ignatjeva was burned as a witch by the peasants in the village of in the government of Novo gorod it seems that the wretched woman who was the widow of a soldier had the reputation of being a sorceress and witch and strove tu promote this delusion by every means in her power the peasants of the whole brict had such a dread other powers of mischief that they endeavored to antici pat ejier wishes and although an absolute p cuper she lived very comfortably on the contributions spontaneously nude to her there wre many persons in the district suffering from epilepsy and i was popularly believed that the witch had thus punished them for offending her in some way one of these epileptic sufferers a girl from a distant village besought some peasants to burn the witch and so release her from her sufferings at an assembly of head men and seniors of the villages it was resolved to extinguish the source of mischief they proceeded to her hut which i they found fastened up they broke it open discovered the wretched woman charged her with the crime and then nailed up the window and door to prevent her es ape by this time over men had assembled around the hut and amid their jeers and shouts of exultation it was set on fire and the whole crowd remained until it was quite colsum d the sum of 21 rubles and so co peck 1650 was collected and offered to the rural policeman as a bribe to secure his si leuce but he rejected it and so i this terrible dy came to light there arc said to be several men at the present time whose memories only reach to their knees and therefore they never pay for their boots there seems to be some sort of between examination time and the following remark by an antipodal laundryman we blown boys cut fee too buchee one two they were walking home from a rehearsal said he lovist thou me said she thou I love heel then they measured noses while the trees sighed th elake murmured upon the pebbled beach and the moon shone in oft splendor A pickpocket taken with his hand in some one alses pocket endeavored to invent all manner of impossible explanations of the phenomenon the use of your trying to lie about it so clumsily said the magistrate benevolently ne cn t you a law |